Sentences with phrase «segregated during division»

Now the Nunnari lab uses cutting - edge microscopy to understand how mitochondrial structure is established and maintained, and how the mitochondrial genome is organized and segregated during division.

Not exact matches

During each cell division, more than 3.3 billion base pairs of genomic DNA have to be duplicated and segregated accurately to daughter cells.

«While these macromolecules are important for the parent cell, they pose hindrances during cell division to segregating the copied chromosomes to daughter cells properly,» said Dr. Norihiko Nakazawa, of OIST's G0 Cell Unit, the paper's first author.

During the key step in sperm formation — a division that results in two cells, each with half the original number of chromosomes — the X and Y chromosomes peeled off from the chain one by one and headed into separate cells, all segregating faithfully with their own kind.

During the meiotic cell division process, homologous chromosomes undergo recombination and are then segregated from each other.